National shutdown
This is the seventh year that Syria has shut the Internet down during high school exams. This is recorded for 30 May 2022. State-owned operator announced the scheduled disruption on platforms like Facebook, describing four outages, each scheduled to last for three and a half hours. The Syrian government has unplugged the Internet every year during student exams time since 2016, after exam questions began appearing on social media prior to the exams. Yet there is growing evidence that shutdowns are an ineffective way to prevent cheating, as questions still get leaked in spite of an Internet blackout.
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Syria
- Population
- 23,594,623
Freedom House rates Internet freedom as Not Free
Local impact
This is the seventh year that Syria has shut the Internet down during high school exams. This is recorded for 30 May 2022. State-owned operator announced the scheduled disruption on platforms like Facebook, describing four outages, each scheduled to last for three and a half hours. The Syrian government has unplugged the Internet every year during student exams time since 2016, after exam questions began appearing on social media prior to the exams. Yet there is growing evidence that shutdowns are an ineffective way to prevent cheating, as questions still get leaked in spite of an Internet blackout.
Other supporting information
The disruption as seen from Internet measurement providers
Second round of exams
Google Transparency Report
Second round of exams
